The Supernatural Show

Welcome to the final session in this series of readings from Naturally—and the chapter about pleasure: Lifting Spirits.Pleasure as the biology of desire—how hormones and neurochemicals shape craving, and how we can meet those needs more intelligently.I’m sharing one reading per week, which will also serve as a sort of workshop on herbalism for pleasure. If you have a copy of Naturally already, please grab it and join me! If you don’t yet have a copy, I’m offering a deeply discounted price here for Substack readers ($19.99 only here, only this month). Feel free to share it with friends, and invite them to join us too! :)Between readings, I’ll be here to answer your questions in the comments.This series is free. Naturally is where it all goes further.Thank you for being here! If this reading inspired you, please share it!Warmly,Rachelle This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to session #3 in this series of readings from Naturally—and the chapter about pleasure: Lifting Spirits.Pleasure as the biology of desire—how hormones and neurochemicals shape craving, and how we can meet those needs more intelligently.I’m sharing one reading per week, which will also serve as a sort of workshop on herbalism for pleasure. If you have a copy of Naturally already, please grab it and join me! If you don’t yet have a copy, I’m offering a deeply discounted price here for Substack readers ($19.99 only here, only this month). Feel free to share it with friends, and invite them to join us too! :)Between readings, I’ll be here to answer your questions in the comments.This series is free. Naturally is where it all goes further.Thank you for being here! If this reading inspired you, please share it!Warmly,Rachelle This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to session #2 in this series of readings from Naturally—and the chapter about pleasure: Lifting Spirits.Pleasure as the biology of desire—how hormones and neurochemicals shape craving, and how we can meet those needs more intelligently.I’m sharing one reading per week, which will also serve as a sort of workshop on herbalism for pleasure. If you have a copy of Naturally already, please grab it and join me! If you don’t yet have a copy, I’m offering a deeply discounted price here for Substack readers ($19.99 only here, only this month). Feel free to share it with friends, and invite them to join us too! :)Between readings, I’ll be here to answer your questions in the comments.This series is free. Naturally is where it all goes further.Thank you for being here! If this reading inspired you, please share it!Warmly,Rachelle This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to my series of readings from Naturally—and the chapter about pleasure: Lifting Spirits.Pleasure as the biology of desire—how hormones and neurochemicals shape craving, and how we can meet those needs more intelligently.I’m sharing one reading per week, which will also serve as a sort of workshop on herbalism for pleasure. If you have a copy of Naturally already, please grab it and join me! If you don’t yet have a copy, I’m offering a deeply discounted price here for Substack readers ($19.99 only here, only this month). Feel free to share it with friends, and invite them to join us too! :)Between readings, I’ll be here to answer your questions in the comments.This series is free. Naturally is where it all goes further.Thank you for being here! If this reading inspired you, please share it!Warmly,Rachelle This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rachellerobinett.substack.comThinking, Naturally is a Substack Bestseller! This reader-supported publication is dedicated to empowering your herbal health practices, natural-ness, and most vital lifestyle. For the full experience, consider upgrading your subscription to paid. Your endless support means the world.Clicking ♥ on this post, sharing and leaving a comment keeps our newsletter alive, thank you for engaging and being here! XOR•°. *࿐Welcome to a new series here on Substack! (We love newness, if you haven’t already noticed!) Over the coming months, we'll be releasing our much-loved online classes, now included with your paid Substack subscription. Stay tuned for in-depth explorations of topics such as Herbalism for Metabolism, Herbalism for Inflammation & Pain, The Beauty of Herbalism, and much more. These classes are designed to empower you with practical knowledge and tools to enhance your well-being, naturally. Now on with the class … Herbalism is the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants. Or, as I say: How to use plants to be healthier, better balanced, and more connected—inwardly and outwardly. In this course, learn the foundations of what herbalism is, what herbalists do, how to talk about herbalism to others, and how herbs are categorized, based on their benefit. Hear my philosophy about herbalism as a lifestyle and take away key insights that can be applied immediately to daily life …

Welcome to Journals from the Jungle—a series of stories from my recent travels, drawn straight from the pages of my journals. These are reflections on breaking free from a life of structure, convention, and societal expectations, and finding my way back to an embodied, authentic self. Through journeys in nature—and into the nature of self—through adventure, challenge, rest, and the dramatic dismantling of old beliefs, I explore themes of freedom, pleasure, love, and the strength that comes from shedding what no longer serves us. I hope these stories inspire you to embrace change, reclaim your vitality, and live more freely.February 2024DAY TENPost-surf: Feeling less emo, more happy. A good, hard, fun day in the waves—I am so beat up. Every surface of my body that isn’t soft is bruised and I love it. The nicks and bangs and bruises remind me of the strength of this tool—my body. Its aliveness, resilience, capacity to injure and heal. It reminds me of growing up in nature, which always seems to leave reminders of its presence on us. It makes me feel strong, or reminds me that I am. My whole body is humming and tingling with the energy and release of all of this. Carbonation in my veins, pooling sparkles in my pelvis, the base of my spine. I shake internally with the waning time. I will revel. I will savor. I will stay locked in—in sync.Only two surfs remain now. So fleeting so much is, I can hardly bear it.I have today, tomorrow, and Friday … I just want to soak it all in. I want to fully disappear into this. Absorb as much as possible and then … well, nothing.When I realize the brevity of the time remaining, I don’t feel well.I leave the beach as wind whips spray into rainbows over the surf and the hot, arid air lifts my hair which will be dry by the time I’m back to my room.My mind wanders over this little town, this oasis that seems so impossibly perfect. Is life like this really possible? Is it as simple as it appears, and as they say? Does it remain simple? Would there be any energy left for it to be anything other than simple after surfing every day? Would the balmy ease thin over time? Or does it persist? What I’m asking is: Is a simple life truly possible?Here the tears are. They come as I’m laying in the sun-dappled shade, eyes open and then closed, seeing this morning’s session again. The sun rising through the mangroves, the arcs and sprays of the sea flaring into the sky. The warm, wet mists in our faces as we paddle against the air, against the current. Turtle-rolling into the froth, following each other in and out, exhilarated and protected, thrilled and safe, edges everywhere.Tu puedes Rashel, you can do it. Paddle hard, keep paddling! Big one coming! Catch your breath! You’ll be okay. Push hard. Go upside-down! Great job! Good job, Rashel, you paddle good. Don’t worry Rashel, nothing bad happen. I’m right here. Don’t worry Rashel, I’ll be right beside you. Don’t worry Rashel, I’m right behind you.Crying, crying, crying. The metaphors … I think it’s simply too much for me to contain—it flows through me and out of me—the waves of this place. Of the beauty, of the power of it, of it, of it all. When I recall what I’ve seen, what I’ve done, what I’ve felt … I weep.Out there, out here, I forget that I’m alone. I forget myself. I forget and am lost … I never once think that I wish I had someone to share what I’m witnessing with … not immediately, in the moment at least. The opposite, actually. Like when a friend joins me for sunset, I don’t mind but it was lessened, not improved. The reminders of my belief in no such thing as shared experiences abound here. It’s too deep, too personal, too beyond verbal to share, I feel certain.~How do I remember this? How do I change? How do I stay in this, stay open, continue this, parlay it, fold it into me, stoke it? What do I start and what do I stop? This feels important. That is: How do we integrate experiences and embrace their evolving us? Especially when we leave the environments in which we were affected, how do we not return to our old ways of being but rather progress anew? I know some ways. And, I know the bittersweet truth that time erodes, well, everything.To a friend: I don’t know how I’m going to care about anything else after this.Friend: Welcome to the other side.~Post surf: It is increasingly more difficult for me to discern between dream and reality. Probably it’s all real, in its way. I say, It’s like a dream here. They say, I know.I feel: Lovesick in paradise.Is it … nature versus culture? Would I miss … it?~I have gone to the place that ayahuasca took me. Deeper, even. Reached that well and kept digging. Chipping until the halves split. We can reach these places without las plantas, I realize so fully now. It requires a different way of being, and persistence, but here we are. And, really, of course we can; they, in all of their revelations, are only showing us ourselves.~Dearest, dearest self,The intensity of this, it will fade. Probably the memories will, as they already are—running together, mixing and frothing like that barreling white-water. While I’d beg and pray and give to preserve them all, what I think (know) is it’s most important to recall: what broke.The gravity of life back there is going to be strong. The patterns, the attachments, the routes and snares will all be set and dug and slippery. You cannot let it envelope you. Maintain the break. Remember, and believe, have faith—trust—when you forget the feeling itself, that this is real life. This is living. Pura vida erases the rust.You only live this once. And you have the time and opportunity right now.Stay attached to this place. Visit, meditate on it, keep it in mind and in focus. Exit the matrix while you can see the way. You have your whole life to make art, you can make it from anywhere, and you tap into deep, profound insights here. Don’t lose this thread.Remember weeping. Remember being warm all of the damn time. Remember the sunsets in their mind-bending surreality. Remember the rainbows at dawn far beyond the break, and the expansive silence out there. Remember the strength of your body. Remember the wide, wide openness of your mind—more elastic now than it’s ever been. Remember this lifestyle, the way of gratitude and optimism, of ease and intention.~What a trip. I change rooms for the third time, back into the one I started in, which tangles my brain a bit—what’s when and where am I?Had therapy, which was so intense. I tried to describe the peak—the sustained peak—of this opening, the ineffability as much as I don’t appreciate that notion. We agreed that it has been the perfect container for me to release, to fully feel, to totally open. That I have been allowed here to be my most porous, which I am naturally but have to limit, contain, prevent in order to survive elsewhere. That in this, I am feeling everything: grief, joy, gain, loss, free … She said, “This is what self-actualization looks like.” I said, “Self-actualized is all I’ve ever wanted to be.” Her: “It’s a process, not an arrival; it is everything all at once. She mentions Bion’s work, and his concept of “O”:"0" is perhaps Bion's most far-reaching conception. It designates an ineffable, inscrutable, and constantly evolving domain that intimates an aesthetic completeness and coherence. He refers to it by different terms, ‘Absolute Truth,’ ‘Ultimate Reality,’ or ‘reverence and awe’.”"0" lies beyond the grasp of the external senses and is only experienced by an inwardly receptive sense organ, intuition, Bion's ‘seventh servant.’ Intuition is observation's reversible perspective, the latter requiring the senses. A transformation in ‘0’ is attainable only by the disciplined abandonment of memory, desire, understanding, sense impressions -- and perhaps also the abandonment of ego itself. Ultimate Reality is also associated with Bion's ‘beta elements,’ Kant's ‘things-in-themselves,’ Lacan's ‘Register of the Real,’ primal chaos (today we would say ‘complexity’), and yet, paradoxically, primal harmony and serenity, depending on the maturity of our capacity to be ‘at-one’ with it. The Greeks called it ‘Ananake" (Necessity). Milton alluded to it as ‘the deep and formless infinite’ and ‘the Void,’ and Blake referred to it as ‘fearful symmetry’ and ‘frightful fiend.’” — sourceI mean … goddamn, it does exist. This ‘ness that I have sought my entire life … the absolute truth I believed in before anything else … here it is. “O” a storm and I now, in the void of its eye.I feel like I’m bending reality out here. I feel my mind quivering with the force of it—I feel unstable, highly, and also onto something so thin that it’s nearly invisible, but true, true true. I feel like I’m on a rocket out of normalcy. My mind has never been stretched so widely, the expanse is gossamer. So many things are breaking—shards and splinters falling away, incinerated by this momentum.I have found something. I have found everything.At the same time, it feels dangerous. I can’t exist in a state like this for long nor in other settings. I feel like I have to slow it down, or contain it, or close myself off to something before I leave. I go to sunset and rather than taking in, I push myself out into it—back at it—with just enough pressure to resist its saturation. It’s not a rejection, but a non-absorption, as if I’m fully full and can’t contain any more.The sunset I will not try to describe; I’ve given up. I watch it. I love it. I do not weep. I walk into it and put my hands into it. Thank you, I love you. I will be back.Then, I wipe my damp palm across my heart, turn my back to the sea, and walk inland. I can do this. I don’t want to, but I can.~Listen to the “Costa Eves” playlist. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Journals from the Jungle—a series of stories from my recent travels, drawn straight from the pages of my journals. These are reflections on breaking free from a life of structure, convention, and societal expectations, and finding my way back to an embodied, authentic self. Through journeys in nature—and into the nature of self—through adventure, challenge, rest, and the dramatic dismantling of old beliefs, I explore themes of freedom, pleasure, love, and the strength that comes from shedding what no longer serves us. I hope these stories inspire you to embrace change, reclaim your vitality, and live more freely.“To exit society and culture, which I have never actually engaged fully or comfortably with. I worked so hard to get there. And, I worked so hard to get here, which is to say that I worked so hard to get out of there. I study myself both because I am one of you, and not like you.”DAY EIGHT CONTINUEDI am moving so slowly now. Not reading, not working, just staring … being. The stillness from last night is here again. I cry again, struggling to describe what’s happening.I had another thought that I came here to write about but seem to have lost it. Thoughts hard to hold, which is such a rare and precious state for me—a relief.Maybe it was something about the waves of energy finding their way out of me. First with the hard landing here, and the trouble unwinding, and then the severity of the sync. The force of it when it releases. Maybe too I am letting go of what was happening in New York. From this distance, it’s a little harder to feel the things. This dense and sensual jungle eclipses it all.I am going to stay a few more days.Oh! The thought returned: Some of this elation is also because I am now secure enough, have built myself a stable enough base professionally and financially to be able to have these experiences without other obligations requiring me away from them. That alone, which I remember from my first trip here to Costa after the pandemic, feels like a state worth weeping over all its own. What an incredible journey, of so much determination and day-in-out effort, ceaselessly, in order to break through and be, well, free—which is what I’ve always wanted most of all.“Life is for living, not thinking. Tomorrow is dead. Pura vida,” a stranger says.Also, the contrast of this place against New York Fashion Week, which is happening there now, looks like my two lives, my two halves, my selves cracked apart and from between the two, I am now, feeling. Such a distance from the NYC scene. From social media and content and all of the stuff. It’s a world I came to conquer, and have in some ways, and also there will always be new ways to “need” to, in order to keep up. I am uniquely suited to do that, but I am also uniquely suited to do this. To strip down to nothing and let go. To exit society and culture, which I have never actually engaged fully or comfortably with. I worked so hard to get there. And, I worked so hard to get here, which is to say that I worked so hard to get out of there. I study myself both because I am one of you, and not like you.I run down to catch sunset and it’s so worth it. Cotton candy sky, sea mirror, pelican silhouettes, softest blue and delicate pink, pastel and peaceful—so perfectly beautiful, as it always always is. The beach is full in a lightly scattered way, everyone there to see this scene, every single night.“What broke?” my friend asks. I think … all of the ties. I feel like I’ve exited some matrix. My heart broke. The bind and attachments and habits and patterns snapped, too. My mind, me, suddenly cut loose. Free to feel and be … here … now (ha). But not only now, in the future too. Like being knocked to sense, slapped into seeing, struck. I am experiencing some other way of being—some other dimension of life, which I’ve tasted before but perhaps, por fin, know now that it is real.There is something akin to psychedelic trips in this. In directly experiencing bliss, by way of the simplest things. Not that it isn’t spiritually beautiful here too, but to witness the human being, being fully fulfilled, by simply being—that is profound.I mentioned how natural it felt, feels, and yet so much of the time we live against that grain.I wish that memories didn’t fade. I am amassing so many of them on this trip, and I know that in this heightened state, they are saved more clearly than most, but still. I guess the thing is, the memories remain, but the sensations fade. The feelings, they melt through shades like sunsets and seasons, and they interrupt each other too, like this, now, obstructing my view of what was, then. Because I live for them, I continue on in this. The pain of arriving here was certainly worth these new wrinkles in my brain. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

SHOWNOTESThis week’s topics included:* My favorite retreats (plant medicine and otherwise), with some discounts* My haircare routine. (Maybe finally have it figured out?!)* Holistic tips for rosacea* Treatments for creaking joints, and joint care* Thoughts on treating Long COVID* Holistic tips for chronic gastritisProducts, Services & References:* Wendy Green yoga * Peace Retreat, Costa Rica* Thea Retreat, Costa Rica* Mystical Yoga Farm, Guatemala* Anam Cara, Peru & Costa Rica* Sachajuan hair cleansing cream (my shampoo)* Iles hair mask (I use as a conditioner)* OsteoHerb* Collagenics* Glutagenics* Turmeric at SupernaturalTimestamps:* 2:10: Six plant medicine retreats that I love and recommend* 16:05: Sexual harassment in the psychedelic community * 19:33: What’s my hair routine * 26:24: Recommendations for rosacea * 35:04: Herbs and food ideas for tearing / popping in the knees and joints, and ideas for repairing tissues and liniments * 40:49: Thoughts on long covid and antivirals * 48:08: Herbs to recommend for chronic gastritisVIDEO RECORDINGQuestion, thought, feedback, or request? Leave it in a comment below.To access comments & community, the full archive of over a year of content, plus subscriber-only episodes and emails, become a subscriber!Like this episode? Benefitting from Ask the Herbalist or know someone who would? Please share it with a friend. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

Navigating Social Pressures to Consume | new video episode* WATCH the new episode on YouTube, and subscribe to our channel to know when new eps launch.* AUDIO episodes are also available on Spotify, Apple, and about anywhere else you’re listening to pods these days.* SUBSCRIBERS (that’s here on Substack!) receive several subscriber-only episodes per month, plus monthly emails, and access to comments, where you can submit questions or topic requests for the show.Thank you for journeying with me!XORLike this and want to see it continue? Interested in access to all of the content (over a year’s worth) plus submitting questions via the comments? Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

Tea Three Ways: How-To (video episode) * WATCH the new episode on YouTube, and subscribe to our channel to know when new eps launch.* AUDIO episodes are also available on Spotify, Apple, and about anywhere else you’re listening to pods these days.* SUBSCRIBERS (that’s here on Substack!) receive several subscriber-only episodes per month, plus monthly emails, and access to comments, where you can submit questions or topic requests for the show.Thank you for journeying with me! XORLike this and want to see it continue? Interested in access to all of the content (over a year’s worth) plus submitting questions via the comments? Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

SHOW NOTESThis week’s topics included:* How to turn a passion into a business* Plant-based desserts I love* My travel smoothie, which scores a 10/10 for blood sugar stability* My thoughts on water filtration, charcoal sticks, electrolytes and more* Reviewing a sleep formula, and other sleep supportsTimestamps:* 4:27: How to turn a passion into a business* 24:15: Superfood dessert ideas* 30:12: What I ate while wearing a blood sugar monitor, and best foods for balance* 37:01 Water tips: filters, charcoal sticks, and more* 42:48 Thoughts on electrolytes* 45:55: Reviewing Apothékary's "Do Not Disturb" blend* 53:59: Desk TourProducts, Services & References:* Podcast: Building a Diversified Wellness Business, with Rachelle Robinett & Blair Badenhop* Homemade Cacao Recipe* Mood Boosting Bliss Balls (with Mucuna) Recipe* Berkey water filters* Shop Sleep from Supernatural* Apothekary’s Do Not Disturb blend* My Nourish bar with BTR Nation* HRBLS herbal gummiesVIDEO RECORDINGQuestion, thought, feedback, or request? Leave it in a comment below.To access comments & community, the full archive of over a year of content, plus subscriber-only episodes and emails, become a subscriber!Like this episode? Benefitting from Ask the Herbalist or know someone who would? Please share it with a friend. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rachellerobinett.substack.comThis week’s topics include:Categories of herbs: From Diuretics to Detoxifiers, Hypnotics and Nervines!Links, References & Resources:David Hoffman’s Medical HerbalismMy supplement protocols on FullscriptMetagenics supplements, always at a special price through my link This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

Habit Reshaping: An Herbalist's How-To is now live!* WATCH the new episode on YouTube, and subscribe to our channel to know when new eps launch.* AUDIO episodes are also available on Spotify, Apple, and about anywhere else you’re listening to pods these days.* SUBSCRIBERS (that’s here on Substack!) receive several subscriber-only episodes per month, plus monthly emails, and access to comments, where you can submit questions or topic requests for the show.Thank you for journeying with me! Ever onward.XORLike this and want to see it continue? Interested in access to all of the content (over a year’s worth) plus submitting questions via the comments? Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

SHOW NOTESThis week’s topics included:* How to do a plant-based diet right* Treating food allergies with herbs, diet and lifestyle* Functional mushrooms, and other herbal supplements I recommend most often* Herbal blood sugar support* Gut healing after antibiotics* Herb & supplement cycling* How to identify which herbs & supplements you need* and moreTimestamps:* 1:02 Agenda * 2:44: “Do you recommend plant-based diets?”* 6:35: On grains and legumes* 9:06: Food allergies and herbs we can use for full nutrition* 11:52: Nourishing herbs, examples and how-to* 14:05: Herbs & tips for food allergies* 17:06: Extracting functional mushrooms* 19:46: Does cooking reduce the nutritional value of herbs?* 12:33: Herbs you offer to regulate blood sugar and how they work* 28:50: Stabilizing high carb meals * 30:22: Do you recommend changing your probiotics every month?* 32:15: Can you talk about what you put in your travel salad?* 37:55: If I’m having blood sugar problems, can I take both Sugarbreak supplements? * 41:00: How often do you recommend switching up your herbal supplement routine?* 45:41: How do you determine what herbs to take and when to take them?* 51:03: Gut health and liver support suggestions for calibrating after parasites and the subsequent use of antibiotics and acetaminophenProducts, Services & References:* Sugarbreak blood-sugar & sugar-craving herbal supplements, in the Supernatural shop* Travel salad recipe* Herbal coffee alternatives* Prebiotics* Probiotics, from Metagenics* Other gut-healing supplements I recommend for any/everyone* Digestive herbal bitters* 4-Week Herbal Health Course* Supernatural Metabolism ClassVIDEO RECORDINGQuestion, thought, feedback, or request? Leave it in a comment below.To access comments & community, the full archive of over a year of content, plus subscriber-only episodes and emails, become a subscriber!Like this episode? Benefitting from Ask the Herbalist or know someone who would? Please share it with a friend. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rachellerobinett.substack.comThis week’s topics include:Categories of herbs: From Diuretics to Detoxifiers, Hypnotics and Nervines!Links, References & Resources:David Hoffman’s Medical HerbalismMy supplement protocols on FullscriptMetagenics supplements, always at a special price through my link This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rachellerobinett.substack.comCategories of herbs: Making sense of the catalog of medicinal plants.AdaptogensAlterativesAnti-inflammatoriesLinks, References & Resources:Are Feelings Facts?How Do Adaptogens Actually Work?Medical Herbalism (book)Guide to Understanding Herbal ActionsShop herbs from Mountain RoseMore herbalism books I recommend

It’s here! The Supernatural Show is now live!* WATCH the new episode on YouTube (and subscribe to my channel there for notifications when new eps launch!)* AUDIO episodes are also available on Spotify, Apple, and about anywhere else you’re listening to pods these days.* SUBSCRIBERS (that’s here on Substack!) receive several subscriber-only episodes per month, plus monthly emails, and access to comments, where you can submit questions or topic requests for the show.Thank you for journeying with me! Ever onward.XOR This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rachellerobinett.substack.comThis week’s topics include:Categories of herbs: Antimicrobials to AstringentsLinks, References & Resources:RASA herbal coffee (I use the Cacao + Bold, blended together at home)code RACHELLE29347 for 15% offDavid Hoffman’s Medical HerbalismMy supplement protocols on FullscriptMetagenics supplements, always at a special price through my linklmk if there are any specific herbs mentioned in this ep that you’d like a recommendation for! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rachellerobinett.substack.comSHOW NOTESThis week’s topics included:* Community feedback* Taking tinctures, FYI (re: functional mushrooms)* How I deal with “unproductive” social media feedback* Herbs for dryness (Shogrin’s focus)* Herbs for inflammation and pain (plantar fasciitis focus)* Queue review!Timestamps:* 00:00: Community feedback: Experience with Gentiana lutea and bitters for asthma * 4:…

This week’s topics included: Intermittent fasting (quick reminder and my approach). Herbs and supplements to support IF, cravings, and blood sugar stability. All things insulin resistance and metabolism — from causes and conditions to herbs and supplements for prevention and treatment. And more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rachellerobinett.substack.com/subscribe